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Word of the Day: Ride (something) out
Every time there is a hurricane evacuation order in the United States, some people decide to ride it out.
When you ride out a situation, you choose to endure hardship and difficulty, hoping the situation will improve in the near future.
They choose to stay in a difficult situation and not run away from it.
Whether this is the right decision or not is not up to me.
I’m just using it as an example of the phrasal verb ride (something) out.
Sometimes, ships at sea will forgo the ‘any port in storm’ mantra and ride out a storm on the ocean instead of running into port.
Employees at a troubled company may decide to stay and ride out the trouble instead of quitting and finding work at another company.
English students who are having difficulty often feel like they are not making progress.
These students can decide to ride the situation out, hoping things get better, or they can just quit and forget about English forever.
Whether a person decides to ride out a difficult situation is entirely up to them.
As Kenny Rogers sang in The Gambler:
You’ve got to know when to hold ’em
Know when to fold ’em
Know when to walk away
Know when to run
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least a 7th-grade education (age 12).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 74.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.